Embed from Getty Images [This is a spoiler alert, just in case] This week Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword opens and the reviews are beginning to come in. I saw the film at a pre-premiere screening last … Continue reading
We, that is the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies, are running a two-week summer course in Bergen in August on the theme “Past and Present in the Middle Ages”. We hope to get PhD students working on how the Middle … Continue reading
few quotes to add to an earlier post on the Middle Ages, which, I think, contrast nicely with one another even if each does not specifically address the medieval. Brian Stock, Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the … Continue reading
ow we define the Middle Ages obviously affects the methods and modes of our inquiry, but it also reflects a range of inherited ways of looking at the past. Ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary (by whichever name one chooses). And while … Continue reading